$ token=`oc create token prometheus-k8s -n openshift-monitoring` 
$ oc -n openshift-monitoring exec -c prometheus prometheus-k8s-0 -- curl -k -H "Authorization: Bearer $token" 'https://thanos-querier.openshift-monitoring.svc:9091/api/v1/query?' --data-urlencode 'query=kube_state_metrics_build_info' | jq
  {
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    "resultType": "vector",
    "result": [
      {
        "metric": {
          "__name__": "kube_state_metrics_build_info",
          "branch": "rhaos-4.18-rhel-9",
          "container": "kube-rbac-proxy-self",
          "endpoint": "https-self",
          "goarch": "amd64",
          "goos": "linux",
          "goversion": "go1.22.7 (Red Hat 1.22.7-1.el9_5) X:strictfipsruntime",
          "instance": "10.128.2.10:9443",
          "job": "kube-state-metrics",
          "namespace": "openshift-monitoring",
          "pod": "kube-state-metrics-5b579cc9-tdtbb",
          "prometheus": "openshift-monitoring/k8s",
          "revision": "21cc50a",
          "service": "kube-state-metrics",
          "tags": "strictfipsruntime",
          "version": "v"
        },
        "value": [
          1729240100.832,
          "1"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "analysis": {}
  }

$ oc -n openshift-monitoring exec -c prometheus prometheus-k8s-0 -- curl -k -H "Authorization: Bearer $token" 'https://10.128.2.10:9443/metrics' | grep kube_state_metrics_build_info
# HELP kube_state_metrics_build_info A metric with a constant '1' value labeled by version, revision, branch, goversion from which kube_state_metrics was built, and the goos and goarch for the build.
# TYPE kube_state_metrics_build_info gauge
kube_state_metrics_build_info{branch="rhaos-4.18-rhel-9",goarch="amd64",goos="linux",goversion="go1.22.7 (Red Hat 1.22.7-1.el9_5) X:strictfipsruntime",revision="21cc50a",tags="strictfipsruntime",version="v"} 1

$ oc -n openshift-monitoring get pod --show-labels | grep kube-state-metrics kube-state-metrics-5b579cc9-tdtbb                        3/3     Running   0          6h54m   app.kubernetes.io/component=exporter,app.kubernetes.io/managed-by=cluster-monitoring-operator,app.kubernetes.io/name=kube-state-metrics,app.kubernetes.io/part-of=openshift-monitoring,app.kubernetes.io/version=2.13.0,pod-template-hash=5b579cc9 

checked with 4.18.0-0.nightly-2024-10-16-094159

always

1. check kube_state_metrics_build_info result

version value is "v" for kube_state_metrics_build_info

v2.13.0

only have issue with 4.18